Improvement in whip-holder



Patented April 28,1868.

ALVA WORD'EN, OF YPSIILANTI, MICHIGAN Letters Patent No. 77,233, dated April 28, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-HOLDER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN; I

Be it known that I, ALVA WORDEN, of the city of Ypsilanti, .in the county of Washtenaw, and State of Michigan, have invented a new. and usefullmprovement to Curtis Wordens Self-Adjusting Whip-Holder, which was patented on the twenty-second day of October, A. D. 1867, by Letters Patent of the United States numbered 70,075, issued to H. M. Curtis and A. Worden, of'Ypsilanti, Michigan, and which improvement consists in a clasp attached to the whip-holder, asa part thereof, for attaching the whip-holder to carriages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a. perspective view of the whip-holder and clasp attachedcomplete, and attached to the dash-rod of a carriage, a. 1

Figure 2is a sectional view of the whip-holder with the clasp attached, without the cap.

Figure 8 isa perspectiveview of the clasp complete.

Figure 4 is the eap'to the clasp, detached. 7

Figure 5 is a screw, used in fasteningthe cap to the clasp;

The nature of my invention consists in making one of the jaws of the socket with a lateral extension or extensions adapted to fit the dash-hoard rod of a carriage, such extensions being homogeneous parts of said jaw, and serving, in connection with screw-caps, as a means of claspipg the whip-socket in a firm position upon the said rod. l

To enable others skilled in theart to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A represents the dash-board rod of a carriage. B B, the jaws of a whip-socket, said jaws being shaped to receive a whip-butt between them, and opening and closing on a hinge-joint, 0, as illustrated in the drawings. The jaws are made of light cast metal and of'open work, as shown. D -D are lateral .extensions,'cast on the jaws B, at top and bottom; T hese extensions are made concave at their outer ends, so as to just fit thcrod of the desh-board,as shown. E E are screw-clasps or caps, made concave on their inner faces, so as to fit therod A.

It will be seen that when the whip socket is placed againstthe rod A. and the caps or clasps screwed to theextensions, it will be firmly fastened upon said rod.

My invention saves the expense and inconvenience of having the socket made in two parts, that is, with a socket and a clasping-ring or rings separate from one another. Thus I am enabled to make a much cheaper and neuter whip-socket and clasp combined, than heretofore.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Making the clamping-extension or extensions :1 part of one of the jaws of the whip-socket, and substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

. ALVA WORDEN,

Witnesses:

Amos 0. BLODGET, FRANK Josnm. 

